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bohler said:

I‘ve now used my ipad Pro 12,9‘‘ for 5 years…. the one thing I never had a problem with was the excellent screen and it is still excellent. The battery is dying so and I need a replacement. I really wonder who really cares about an OLED screen sidegrade. A larger screen iPad would be a really big thing ..everything else is a lame excuse to increase the price again to north of EUR 2000…..the decision to go for a macbook air M3 and abandon the ipad is drawing closer…

There will be the options of the 11” and 13” iPad Air. Likely M2, but it will likely be about $100 to $200 cheaper than an M2 MBA13 at the same RAM/Storage configurations.

gatorguy said:

charlesn said:

mpantone said:

Teenagers are a notoriously fickle audience so this longterm and ongoing admiration for the Apple brand over years is actually very enviable. It's not like Apple didn't have competition before (like RIM BlackBerrys, T-Mobile Sidekicks, Windows Mobile) or now (Android).

In the end, it comes down to the overall user experience -- particularly software -- not some weird mobile device hardware specs circle jerk.

You are absolutely SPOT ON with this assessment. Teens are the demographic most likely to be swayed by the latest trends and gimmicks, both in plentiful supply in the world of Android. That Apple maintains teen loyalty for this length of time with an unabashedly conservative hardware approach that eschews gimmickry in favor a superior user experience is something of a miracle. But there you have it. Year after year after year. 

When those teenagers become adults are the statistics still holding firm, 85% or thereabouts remaining iPhone users? If so, then within another 5 years, Apple will plainly be in time-to-break-em-up territory with 80% plus market share. 

No, they won't hold. When teenagers become adults and have to use their own hard earned money, buying patterns will change, even if you assume Apple continues to hold onto their brand as a premium computer vendor.

You can already see that the brand among teenagers is slowly dropping from the 2021 peak. So, the taste of the teenage market could already be changing away from Apple to whatever it will be.

Seems to be running at least 2 years late if they are only at the raising venture capital stage now. All they have had are brainstorming sessions?! And, OpenAI is not giving LoveFrom enough money to at least prototype something? That's weird. And LoveFrom wants $1b? That's a lot!

I'm pretty skeptical of consumer oriented generative LLM devices. If it is a voice only device, I think it fails. Voice interfaces are horrible. It's non-deterministic and low information density while taking high cognitive load. It is just not something a large fraction of the market will get into imo. It would be an interesting feature to see evolve on our existing devices, but even there, I wonder how popular it will be. It will have to be something very suitable for those types of models.

On the backend and for services, we will surely be tortured by chat bots. Travel agents, helper chat bots, etc. Yeah, it's already quite frustrating to try to talk to a human for this or that during a phone call, but now there is or will be an additional gate of the chat bot sounding human, designed to not help while making the wall ever higher to get some kind of customer service.

Don't understand why there is so much enthusiasm from the tech mediarati for this. They are bored, just like in the first round of voice interfaces when Amazon Echo/Alexa devices was the new "it" technology. Apple was so far behind there as I recall. The Internet of Things? Machine learning? VR? I'm not even sure why people think Apple needs to have "AI" when it primarily exists as a search service and eventually, primarily driven by ad sales, something that is not Apple.

Anilu_777 said:

The big question is whether Masimo ever intended to make a wearable or was developing tech it could use for patent licensing purposes.

That really doesn’t matter. Masimo could have intended to make a wristwatch in 2014. That’s all fine. 

In Apple's patent, an array of radar units embedded in the case of a laptop or other device would provide pinpoint accuracy without needing any touch sensors. This system would provide more accuracy and open new ways of interacting with your devices.